objectless

[ob-jikt-lis, -jekt-]

adjective

1. not directed toward any goal; purposeless; aimless.

2. having no object.

   an objectless preposition.

Other Word Forms

• objectlessly adverb
• objectlessness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of objectless¹

First recorded in 1795–1805; object + -less

Example Sentences

It was the same vehicle whence, a year ago, I had alighted one summer evening on this very spot—how desolate, and hopeless, and objectless!

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Yet a chance traveller might pass by; and I wish no eye to see me now: strangers would wonder what I am doing, lingering here at the sign-post, evidently objectless and lost.

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She said of “Hyperion”: “It is desultory, objectless, a thing of shreds and patches like the Author’s mind.”

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Sonja’s is an objectless yearning, deeper than nostalgia.

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In the early pages of her book, Witt writes of turning 30, and of conceiving of her singleness as an interim state; she describes a condition of objectless longing, a special form of loneliness that can only be generated by the technologies of connection.

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Related Words

• accidental 
• aimless 
• arbitrary 
• incidental 
• indiscriminate 
• irregular 
• odd 
• unplanned